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firstfullmoon · 4 years

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sorry if this has been asked before, but what are your favorite quotes about (romantic) love?

• “I love you. I want us both to eat well.”

— Christopher Citro, from “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shriek”

• “You kiss the back of my legs and I want to cry. Only the sun has come this close, only the sun.”

— Shauna Barbosa, from “GPS”

• “August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don’t you? 92 degrees even in the shade.”

“I used to be a hopeless romantic. I am still a hopeless romantic. I used to believe that love was the highest value. I still believe that love is the highest value. I don’t expect to be happy. I don’t imagine that I will find love, whatever that means, or that if I do find it, it will make me happy. I don’t think of love as the answer or the solution. I think of love as a force of nature - as strong as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it is warming, as drought-making as it is life-giving. And when it burns out, the planet dies.”

“If love is going to be done differently I will have to do it. I don’t mean as a messiah-thing, I mean as a me-thing. I want to look into your eyes and not get blown up. I want you to see me as I am and not destroy me. I don’t want to retreat into plant life, or have the same bad dream every night. I don’t want to watch a city burn because I was there.”

— Jeanette Winterson

• “I’ll take care of you. / It’s rotten work. / Not to me. Not if it’s you.”

— from Anne Carson’s translation of Orestes

• “I think of you all the time and therefore have little to say that would not embarrass you, for instance my first feeling about the rain was that it was like you.”

— John Cage, from a letter to Merce Cunningham

• “I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in the world.”

— Maggie Nelson, Bluets

• “I want to be a village full of sweethearts, / as you are, every second of the day, / cooking me soups & drawing me pictures / & holding me, my inexplicable & elephant sadness, / with your infinite arms. / But isn’t it true, you are not / always why I am happy. & I promise / it is true, you are almost never why, / why I am sad.”

— Chen Chen, from “Elegy for My Sadness”

• “Look here Vita—throw over your man, and we’ll go to Hampton Court and dine on the river together and walk in the garden in the moonlight and come home late and have a bottle of wine and get tipsy, and I’ll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads — They won’t stir by day, only by dark on the river. Think of that. Throw over your man, I say, and come.”

“I always have such need to merely talk to you. Even when I have nothing to talk about – with you I just seem to go right ahead and sort of invent it. I invent it for you. Because I never seem to run out of tenderness for you and because I need to feel you near.”

“I could only think of you as being very distant and beautiful and calm. A lighthouse in clean waters.”

“What can one say — except that I love you and I’ve got to live through this strange quiet evening thinking of you sitting alone. Dearest — let me have a line… You have given me such happiness…”

— Virginia Woolf, from letters to Vita Sackville-West

• “I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.”

“Please, in all this muddle of life, continue to be a bright and constant star. Just a few things remain as beacons: poetry, and you, and solitude.”

— Vita Sackville-West, from letters to Virginia Woolf

• “Love is awful. It’s awful. It’s painful. It’s frightening. It makes you doubt yourself, judge yourself, distance yourself from the other people in your life. It makes you selfish. It makes you creepy, makes you obsessed with your hair, makes you cruel, makes you say and do things you never thought you would do. It’s all any of us want, and it’s hell when we get there. So no wonder it’s something we don’t want to do on our own. I was taught if we’re born with love then life is about choosing the right place to put it. People talk about that a lot, feeling right, when it feels right it’s easy. But I’m not sure that’s true. It takes strength to know what’s right. And love isn’t something that weak people do. Being a romantic takes a hell of a lot of hope. I think what they mean is, when you find somebody that you love, it feels like hope.“

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge, in Fleabag

• “i carry your heart with me(i carry it inmy heart)”

— e.e. cummings, from “[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]”

• “There was once a very great American surgeon named Halsted. He was married to a nurse. He loved her-immeasurably. One day Halsted noticed that his wife’s hands were chapped and red when she came back from surgery. And so he invented rubber gloves. For her. It is one of the great love stories in medicine. The difference between inspired medicine and uninspired medicine is love. When I met Ana I knew: I loved her to the point of invention.”

— Sarah Ruhl, The Clean House

• “oh god it’s wonderful / to get out of bed / and drink too much coffee / and smoke too many cigarettes / and love you so much”

— Frank O’Hara, from “Steps”

• “This morning there’s snow everywhere. We remark on it. You tell me you didn’t sleep well. I say I didn’t either. You had a terrible night. “Me too.” We’re extraordinarily calm and tender with each other as if sensing the other’s rickety state of mind. As if we knew what the other was feeling. We don’t, of course. We never do. No matter. It’s the tenderness I care about. That’s the gift this morning that moves and holds me. Same as every morning.”

— Raymond Carver, from “The Gift”

• “Well Marianne, it’s come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon. Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine.”

— Leonard Cohen, in a letter to Marianna Ihlen

• “I think about love on a scale from 1 to 10. Most of us find a 6 or a 7, and that’s why we have divorce. It’s the truth. We settle for that 6 or 7. But I like to think Kevin is Chiron’s 10. He’s found that and he realizes that there’s no reason to settle for a 6 or a 7 because, “I know this person is my 10. Whether or not this person believes I’m his 10, I’m going to devote my life to this person entirely.” That’s why the line where he says, “You’re the only man that’s ever touched me,” for me, was the most amazing, most beautiful thing I’ve seen in cinema, period. Because that’s what we strive for as people, to find that one person because they’re there. If Kevin doesn’t feel that they should be together, Chiron is just going to die a miserable person because that’s his person and he won’t settle for anything else.“

— Trevante Rhodes about Moonlight

• “I look at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world”

— Frank O’Hara, from “Having a Coke with You” but the whole poem is !

• “The door slammed and someone came home and low voices could be heard, the single lilt of a question as it rose, “How was it?” or “Are you hungry?” Something plain and necessary, yet extra, with care, a voice like those tiny roofs over the phone booths along the train tracks, the ones made from the same shingles used for houses, except only four rows wide—just enough to keep the phone dry. And maybe that’s all I wanted—to be asked a question and have it cover me, like a roof the width of myself.”

— Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

• “I keep wishing for you, keep shutting up my eyes and looking toward the sky, asking with all my might for you, and yet you do not come. I thought of you, until the world grew rounder than it sometimes is, and I broke several dishes.”

— Emily Dickinson, in a letter to Minnie Holland

• “I don’t want you to be nervous. Maybe thinking of a walrus would help. Have you seen the video of the penguin accidentally stepping on a sleeping walrus? It thought it was a rock. The walrus wakes up like what the fuck and the penguin scurries off like oh shit. Sometimes it’s funny watching a surprise happen, and not just funny but kind of amazing — like, you never really know what’s what when it comes to this planet.

Then again, when it’s you getting surprised, that’s different. Especially for tender ones like us. What are we supposed to do? It’s bad for our hearts, you know. I hope you won’t need pills like I do. I think I get so scared because I’m greedy — I want to hold onto everything, the world wants to take it away. What the fuck. The number of hours we have together is actually not so large. Please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. Please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it.”

— Mikko Harvey, “For M”

• “Willem sleeps on the left side of the bed, and he on the right, and the first night they slept in the same bed, he turned to his right on his side, the way he always did, and Willem pressed up against him, tucking his right arm under his neck and then across his shoulders, and his left arm around his stomach, moving his legs between his legs. He was surprised by this, but once he overcame his initial discomfort, he found he liked it, that it was like being swaddled. One night in June, however, Willem didn’t do it, and he worried he had done something wrong. The next morning–early mornings were the other time they talked about the things that seemed too tender, too difficult, to be said in the daylight–he asked Willem if he was upset with him, and Willem, looking surprised, said no, of course not. “I just wondered,” he began, stammering, “because last night you didn’t–” But he couldn’t finish the sentence; he was too embarrassed. But then he could see Willem’s expression clear, and he rolled into him and wrapped his arms around him. “This?” he asked, and he nodded. “It was just because it was so hot last night, Willem said, and he waited for Willem to laugh at him, but he didn’t. “That’s the only reason, Judy.” Since then, Willem has held him in the same way every night, even through July, when not even the air-conditioning could erase the heaviness from the air, and when they both woke damp with sweat. This, he realizes, is what he wanted from a relationship all along. This is what he meant when he hoped he might someday be touched.”

— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

• “No, I didn’t imagine my being alone with you the way you do. If I want the impossible, I want it in its entirety. Entirely alone, dearest, I wanted us to be entirely alone on this earth, entirely alone under the sky, and to lead my life, my life that is yours, without distraction and with complete concentration, in you.”

— Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer

• “If I could attach our blood vessels so we could become each other I would. If I could attach our blood vessels in order to anchor you to the earth, to this present time, I would. If I could open up your body and slip inside your skin and look out your eyes and forever have my lips fused with yours, I would.”

— David Wojnarowicz, The Half-Life

• “I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell, I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”

— Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

• “If Moses had seen the way my friend’s face blushes when he’s drunk, and his beautiful curls and wonderful hands, he would not have written in his Torah: do not lie with a man”

— Rabbi Yehuda Al-Harizi/Judah Ben Solomon Harizi

• “I’ll rob the bank that gave you the impression that money is more fruitful than words, and I’ll cut holes in the ozone if it means you have one less day of rain. I’ll walk you to the hospital, I’ll wait in a white room that reeks of hand sanitizer and latex for the results from the MRI scan that tries to locate the malady that keeps your mind guessing, and I want to write you a poem every day until my hand breaks and assure you that you’ll find your place, it’s just the world has a funny way of hiding spots fertile enough for bodies like yours to grow roots. I hope our ghosts aren’t eating you alive. If i’m to speak for myself, I’ll tell you that the universe is twice as big as we think it is and you’re the only one that made that idea less devastating.”

— Lucas Regazzi, from “Small”

• “I thought she was sleeping until I heard her call out from across the room, “Will you bring me a glass of water?” I did. Then in her always-sleepy tone and drawl she said, “Do you remember when you were a little girl and you would ask your mama to bring you a glass of water?” Yeah. “You know how half the time you weren’t even thirsty. You just wanted that hand that was attached to that glass that was attached to that person you just wanted to stay there until you fell asleep.” She took the glass of water that I brought her and just sat it down full on the table next to her. Wow, I thought. What am I gonna do with love like this.”

— Dito Montiel, One Night

#this is the best ask i've ever received actually thank you so much #w #compilation #the earth was made for lovers #shauna barbosa #jeanette winterson #madeline miller #franz kafka #hanya yanagihara #emily dickinson #ocean vuong #maggie nelson #chen chen #virginia woolf #vita sackville west #david wojnarowicz #frank o’hara

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angelolsenwife · 3 years

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music tag game + questions + phone photo meme

i was tagged by my dear friend @blue-vveekend , thank you 💕

rules: we're snooping in your playlist, put your entire music library on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, then choose 10 victims.

1. summer song by angel olsen

2. trojan horses by agnes obel

3. delilah by florence + the machine

4. dead leaves and the dirty ground by the white stripes

5. stars by the xx

6. never grow old by the cranberries

7. runaway house city clouds by tame impala

8. dancing shoes by arctic monkeys

9. sun goes down by the raveonettes

10. come by adrianne lenker

why did you choose your url?

well, i am obsessed with virginia woolf and i wanted a name related to her somehow, so i remembered that one of her nicknames was ginny and that she also used to be called "the goat" by some of her closest relatives, like her sister, because she was a very mischievous, jumpy child, so i thought the two things put together would suit well and it did.

any side-blogs? if you have them, name them and why you have them

i do not have any, i tried to but it didn't work out hahaha.

how long have you been on tumblr?

i found out about tumblr in 2012 and created this blog, however i wasn't active at all, so i only started to truly be here in 2015, tho this current blog i only came back to in late 2017 (my previous blog from 2015 i deleted).

do you have a queue tag?

nay.

why did you start your blog in the first place?

to have a place where i could obsess over my interests (mainly musicians/bands, literature and movies/tv shows/actresses) and find out about new/related things.

why did you choose your icon/pfp header?

well, my icon is angel olsen, basically every 10 posts of mine 9 will be about her so hahaha she became my favorite singer back in 2017 and her songs mean a lot to me. i just really love her. and my header is from the movie the world to come, idk what it is about this film, it made me feel so many things, it was just so beautiful i can't even. i was not expecting to fall in love with it this hard but yeah astonishment and joy.

what's your post with the most notes?

i think it's this picture of angel.

how many people do you follow?

290.

have you ever made a shitpost?

hmm, i don't think so? i'm not sure i know what a shitpost is, honestly.

how often do you use tumblr?

daily, yeah.

how do you feel about "you need to to reblog this post"?

do i really?

do you like tag games?

i truly do!!! it makes me very happy when i'm remembered by my mutuals.

which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

idk?

do you have a crush on a mutual?

nay.

phone photo meme game: choose one photo from your camera roll without downloading to sum up your personality

this is me 24/7. when i'm happy, sad, nervous, excited, uncomfortable, freaking out in gay panic over dakota and vanessa etc. all of the emotions

hmm, i don't think i have 10 people to tag, but i'll try

@didyoulookunderthesofainhell @somekeepsakes @lipserviced @chaoticpleiades @martystlouis @angelolsengf @mitskisolsen @drugstoreperffume @theloveandthehorror

pls feel free to ignore this okays, no pressure whatsoever. take care!

#asks

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iconastrology · 3 years

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Intro

So, I decided I waned to start a blog, I wasn’t really sure about what, I just knew I wanted one, so, here I am, trying this thing I’ve never even thought of before. I think I will start introducing myself so here it goes: I’m 13, I live in Argentina so I also speak spanish (for some reason I feel more comfortable communicating in english but if you want, we can talk in spanish), I love reading, I am a huge fan of Emma Watson, Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone, Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman and a million more actresses I could just go on and on about, but I don’t wanna bore whoever is reading this. I curse a lot, I’m very impulsive, I cry in secret because I am actually ashamed of having feelings, I despice them; I like writing, but I don’t think I’m really good at it. I am an astrology nerd and I live associating people, books, movies, characters with zodiac signs. I love space, the sky, the stars and evetrthing that has to do, not only with astrology, but also astronomy. Since I was like 5, I’ve been a One Direction fan and the obsession everybody thought was a phase has not faded away. I am a feminist, I talk about that a lot and I feel like it’s an extremely important movement. My favorite book authors are Stephen King, Virginia Woolf (who, I just found out, died on my birthday but some 70 years before I was born), John Green, Isabel Allende, Jane Austen and Vladimir Nabokov. My favorite animal is the octopus, I have a giant one painted on the wall behing my bed. My least favorite is the snake, I actually have Ophidiophobia, which is the irrational fear of said animal. I want to travel to Italy and England more than anything, I hope someday I’ll live in Europe. Now, to really talk about me as an astrological individual. I am what people would say, a textbook Aries: Yes, I am the stereotype of my zodiac sign, an impulsive hothead who is also a huge softie on the inside. I get angry easily and I also am extremely agressive, sometimes without meaning to, but I can say I am working on that. I tend to obsess over stuff like books, movies, celebrities and scientific facts a lot which would also mean I am extremely intense. My mind is working constantly, I am doing maths in my head 24/7, for example, right now I am calculating the average of words I’ve written basing on how many there are per line. Some of the words people have frequently used to describe me are: Crazy, smart, violent, kind, funny, nice, obsessive. I always say the phrase “not to brag” and I end up bragging. My favorite zodiac sign is Capricorn and despite my former hate towards Leo, I now find myself loving its qualities; even though I have a least favorite I will not share it because I don’t want to hurt anyone. I keep a journal but not those pretty ones you find on pinterest, it’s just a way to let my messy feelings out. Some of my favorite movies are The dead poets society, Call me by your name, La La Land, Black Swan, The Rocky saga and multiple Disney movies including Tangled, Beauty and The Beast, Mulan, Little mermaid and Hercules. I wish I were a lesbian, but I can’t control my feelings, so for some strange reason I could say I am either straight or still not sure. I keep watching Brooklyn 99 over and over again, it is my favorite show and I feel I shoud say that, unlike many many other people, I hate the TV hit show Friends, I just cannot stand it (I love Monica and Chander tho). I want to meet a Gemini so bad, but I still haven’t so, if you are a Gemini and you are willing to stand me for a little while, please let’s have a conversation. People usually say I have a lot of self esteeme but I atually think that’s a cover for all the horrible things I think about myself. Whenever I find something good abut my own person, a trait I like, I can’t help but highlight it constantly, but I don’t think that tiny bit of self love makes up for all the other self hate. Weirdly, I am not an anxious or depressive person and lately, I have been strangely happy. I love talking, as you may have noticed and I so strongly hope this blog thing will work out. Well, I believe there is not much more to say since I have written a gigantic paragraph full of whatever that is. Nobody follows me but it’s nice to get this all out not only to yourself, with the hope that somebody will read it. Anyway, I still don’t know how to use this app but I suppose there are direct messages or something like that, so, whatever way there is to communicate, mine is aways open. Ps. I’ll see what I’ll post as we start moving on, I can’t plan shit.

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nhylluan · 4 years

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17 Things

tagged by @roguescarlett, thanks! :D

Nicknames: Tylluan or Ty on the internet, my irl friends usually calls me Ire Zodiac: Virgo Height: 5′9′‘, 175 cm i think Hogwarts house: Slytherin Last thing I googled: “Lady bird jumps out of the car first 3 mins of the movie.” to answer a message with that scene lmao Song stuck in my head: Up In Flames by She Wants Revenge Amount of sleep: 3? 4? Idk i don’t sleep for shit unfortunately Lucky numbers: It used to be 7, but i never really believed that shite Dream job: Concept artist for games and/or movies Wearing: A black crop top and black sweatpants (just woke up so it’s kinda my pajamas haha) Favourite instrument: I was trained with the piano and i love it but my absolute favourite is the harp Aesthetic: All the victorian-bloodbornish shite, all the dark medieval fantasy, all the cyberpunk neon things. The more they merge together the better. Favourite song: Oh god there are way too many and they changes in time, currently is Nocturnal Me by Ghost Favourite author: It depends, what are we talking about. For games is Hidetaka Miyazaki, for movies are Ridley Scott and Rober Eggers, for books is Virginia Woolf. Favourite animal: Barn owl Favourite animal sound: I grew up in a pretty rural area with owls screeching under my window and being often up at night that became a comforting sound, so i’ll go for that Random: One summer i spent all my nights in a luxury hotel with a friend of mine that used to work there as a night porter. I was keeping him company and helping with all the manteinance shit and we used to go on the hotel roof and just sat there watching the city at night, it was pretty fucking cool Tagging @a-muirehen @semper-draca @healering @sotc @moonlitalien (there are plenty of people that i’d like to know better but since these are more personal questions i’ll stick to tag people with i’ve interacted more than once) Obviously not pressure if you don’t want to do this and sorry if i double tag anyone

#a meem #thanks for the tag!

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jokerownsmysoul · 4 years

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50 questions tag game

I was tagged by @starksclown, @harleenfleck and @mur-raay thank you so much! 🌺

I tag: @yharuhasaiko, @daydreamhustler, @bring-your-holy-water, @stellargirlie, @arthurflecksgirl just if you want to, and anyone who wants to do it 🌺

1. What is the color of your hairbrush? Black and gray

2. A food you never eat? mushroom grr, but I eat them occasionally, if I have to

3. Are you typically too warm or too cold? I guess warm, but my hands and feet most of the time are frozen esp during whinter

4. What were you doing 45 minutes ago? Editing my masterlist lmao

5. What is your favorite candy bar? I don’t think I have a favorite one, is there’s chocolate I’m in, but I adore bounty and snicker

6. Have you ever been to a professional sports event? Nop

7. What is the last thing you said out loud? “She brought it to my room” I was talking about my doghouse

8. What is your favorite ice cream? I sold my soul to the pistachio

9. What was the last thing you had to drink? Coffee

10. Do you like your wallet? Yasss is full of colours

11. What was the last thing you ate? Pasta

12. Did you buy any new clothes last weekend? I’m in quarantine, I’ve been home for two months lmao and I’m not very into buying clothes online

13. The last sporting event you watched? I don’t like sport, I can’t remember the last time it happened

14. What is your favorite flavor of popcorn? Salty popcorn

15. Who was the last person you sent a text message to? A friend of mine

16. Ever go camping? Yayy 3 times

17. Do you take vitamins? Nope

18. Do you go to church every Sunday? Def not lmao

19. Do you have a tan? Nop, I hope to tan in summer even a bit

20. Do you prefer chinese food or pizza? Pizza pizza pizza

21. Do you drink your soda with a straw? If the bartender gives it to me why not

22. What color socks do you usually wear? My socks are always full of embarrassing drawings and patterns lmao but that’s why I love them

23. Ever drive above the speed limit? Nop, It’s important to follow the law especially when driving

24. What terrifies you? Everything? lmaoo. Not being able to overcome my anxiety

25. Look to your left what do you see? Closets of my room

26. What chore do you hate? Cleaning my garden. But honestly each of them, I’m lazyyy

27. What do you think of when you hear an Australian accent? The Australian actors I like

28. What is your favorite soda? Coke

29. Do you go into a fast food place or just hit the drive through? Both, but usually I go into fast food place with my friend on a night out

30. Who was the last person you talked to? My mom

31. Favorite cut of beef? I don’t knoww, maybe ribs

32. Last song you listened to? Burn the Witch - Radiohead

33. Last book you read? Flush, Virginia Woolf

34. Favorite day of the week? Saturday

35. Can you say the alphabet backwards? If I have unlimited time and a lot of patience yes

36. Do you like coffee? Maybe too much, I’m addicted

37. Favorite pair of shoes? Sneaker, but I love slippers or walking barefoot when I’m home

38. At what time do you normally go to bed? I don’t even know what sleep is anymore, during quarantine I’d say at 6 AM lmaoo usually at 3-4 AM

39. At what time do you normally get up? 11 AM

40. What do you prefer - sunrises or sunsets? I’m a sucker for sunsets

41. How many blankets are on your bed? 2-3 usually

42. Describe your kitchen plates: blue with floral patterns, white with lemons patterns and red

43. Do you have a favorite alcoholic beverage? Nop, I’m mostly a beer and wine person

44. Do you play cards? Yayy but I loved it more when I was little

45. What color is your car? My parent’s car is gray, I don’t have my own car

46. Can you change a tire? Maybe, if I’m veeeery careful, but I’m really clumsy so probably I would make a mess lmao

47. What is your favorite province? I think I don’t have one, let’s say the province where I live in

48. Favorite job you ever had? I’m just a student, but I hope in the future I can get the job I dream of, being a therapist

49. How did you get your biggest scar? When I was little I stumbled among the rocks of the sea

50. What did you do today that made someone happy? Writing

#tag list

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scribblingalong-blog · 5 years

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Some Movies Writers Should Watch

I love movies. For a short period of time in high school, I wanted to be a filmmaker. But the very expensive class crushed my dreams. Then I wanted to be a screenwriter — frankly, I don’t know what happened to that one.

But anyways, movies remained a big passion of mine.

I like all sorts of movies, so genres or the age of a movie are never a big problem for me. As long as the story is good, I’m up for it.

However, being a writer, my favorite movies tend to be those that have something to do with writing or writers. Or simply, movies that inspire.

Therefore, I decided to share with you some of my favorite movies with writers or about writers or about writing.

Midnight in Paris

I didn’t think I’d like this movie when I saw that Owen Wilson was going to be in it. Hint: I’m not a fan of Owen Wilson.

However, I fell in love with this movie.

The magical Paris, enchanting 1920s, some of my favorite writers making an appearance on screen… I mean, what could be better? While it’s not a masterpiece or anything, it brings forward all of the writerly doubts, pains, the romance of being a writer and so on.

The cinematography is wonderful, by the way — I loved each and every scene in the sense of lighting, color and props. Best of all, you’ll feel inspired when it ends.

The Help

Now, I know that the main focus of this movie isn’t the writing itself but it’s still worth mentioning. I love this movie for many reasons. Mostly because I felt like Skeeter for the better part of my life.

Then there’s the powerful story of these wonderful black women which I adored.

And even though the focus wasn’t on writing at all, I still felt so inspired by it, that I could barely wait until the end of the movie to write.

Julie and Julia

Okay, so not everyone loves this movie. And it’s not about writing either. But the fact is that it makes all of the “Top Ten” lists of movies for writers, which kind of used to annoy me.

However, I’ve seen it. And while I don’t love the Julie part, I fell in love with Julia part. Can you tell I’m a fan of Meryl Streep?

She’s not a writer or anything, but her struggles spoke to me. I also loved the shots, the light, the colors — all of it.

The Hours

More Meryl Streep, huh?

Yup.

A friend told me about this movie ages ago. I tried watching it but it just seemed a bit bleh to me at the time. So, I just pretended that I have seen it whenever the friend asked me.

However, a few years after that, I caught it on TV, completely by accident. I woke up a bit earlier, the house was empty, I made myself a cup of coffee and turned on the TV.

This movie was just about to start and I didn’t even realize what it was.

But I was mesmerised. I didn’t want it to end. It was a bit older, even at that time. However, the scenes were so wonderful, so poignant and deep. And I still can’t decide which one of these stories I loved the most. Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore are my favorite actresses and then Virginia Woolf is amazing… I was blown away.

So, while it wasn’t so much about the writing, I warmly recommend this movie.

5 to 7

This isn’t a famous movie and the actors are definitely not. But the story and the cinematography are so mesmerising, you’ll fall in love immediately.

The main character is a writer in New York (do I need to say more? Fine, I will.) facing numerous rejections, writer’s block, doubt and so on. Then he meets an older, married woman and falls in love.

She becomes his muse — the rest you’ll have to see for yourself.

It’s a sad story, kind of, and it will break your heart a little.

Before Sunrise, Before Sunset

These are two movies, but I wouldn’t separate them. Both follow the main character Jesse, who is a writer, as he meets Celine.

Before Sunrise is their first meeting and then they meet for the second time in Before Sunset, after many years. In the first part, he is an aspiring writer, still a bit confused, and then in the second part, he’s a very famous author, every bit as confused.

They fall in love and everything, but the best part are their conversations which really make you think without being snobby.

And as a writer, a movie like this can really change your life.

Sylvia

This is a biopic of Sylvia Plath. I don’t love all of it — in fact, I was bored with most of it — but there’s a scene that you just have to see.

It’s beautiful both as a movie scene and as a part of the script.

Sylvia and Ted are on a boat, it’s their honeymoon and she’s having doubts about her writing. You just have to see it, I’m not here to spoil your enjoyment.

Ruby Sparks

Some people may say that this movie is a romantic comedy more than anything, but I’d disagree.

It is about a writer, it has all of the elements of what we face every day as writers. But best of all, this is a movie where every writer’s dream comes true. Ruby Sparks is a fictional character that comes to life.

Imagine that.

Now, from the point when she makes her first appearance, this movie mostly steers into the romantic genre, but I don’t mind. It’s beautifully shot, with compelling and interesting characters and that makes it more than worth watching.

Shakespeare in Love

I don’t think there’s a person who hasn’t seen this movie. Obviously, it’s about Shakespeare making Romeo and Juliet. And obviously, it’s a romantic movie. But while I loved the romance, what I appreciated even more is seeing Shakespeare write so passionately, make mistakes, struggle.

I think those are some of the best parts of this movie.

The Secret Life Of Bees

I watched this movie as a kid and I remembered it again as I started to write this post.

It’s an old one, but a great one, with plenty of aspects that can speak to a writer, especially as Lily Owens, the main character, writes her way through her struggles.

In addition to that, it’s a beautiful story of family we are born into, the family we choose, powerful black women and faith that can get us through.

Bridge to Terabithia

Another movie I watched and loved as a kid, and another one I remembered just as I started to write this post.

Bridge to Terabithia made me cry then and it would definitely make me cry now. But it made this list because it holds a powerful tale about storytelling, imagination and believing.

If you’ve already seen it, go back to it. If you haven’t, there’s no time like today.

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In addition to this list of movies with writing that I watched, there are several movies that I plan on watching and that I will watch, related to writing at least to a degree.

These are:

Barton Fink

Capote

Kill Your Darlings

Bright Star (I still can’t believe I haven’t seen it)

Finding Forester

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11 Questions Tag

I was tagged by the amazing @acfawkes! Thank you so much ^_^

1. What inspired you to write your current WIP(S)?

Uhm, stubbornness? SaE was born to challenge the “transported into a magical world” trope, but it has come quite a long way from that. Really, the only trace left of this is the presence of dimensional portals. However, SaE’s protagonist, Sheen, had already been inhabiting my mind when I came up with the setting. She has changed a lot in the meanwhile and I think that she will have to grow as a character even more.

My other WIP, my brand new thingy that doesn’t even have a title yet, was inspired by the more practical need to put on hold SaE for a bit and just exercise my writing skills. Add magic and climate change and you’ll know almost as much as I do about it ^.^”

2. What’s your favourite thing about writing?

Probably worldbuilding. I know, it is not strictly writing, but it’s a feature I cannot really turn off. I have a wild imagination, which generally translates in a love for descriptions...

3. What, if any, aspects of or occasions in your own life have you used as inspiration for your writing?

I... recently came out of a not-so-nice mental space. The thing is, writing-wise, I would have preferred to totally avoid that. I kept on outlining the SaE story during that time and it had a big impact, especially on my protagonist’s personality, goals and beliefs. I had thoughts, and I wanted to express them in my story. I still want to do that, and I also want to take that period of my life as inspiration, but I need to do it right. That’s why I’m taking a vacation from SaE for a while.

4. What’s the best book you have ever read?

This question is interesting because it’s slightly better than asking what is my favourite book... and yet I cannot choose, so here we go by genre.

I think The Hobbit is legitimately one of the best books I ever read; the style, the story, it is really a good book. Honorable mention, La Horde du Contrevent: the only fantasy book after Tolkien that had me stop and think “this is actual fantasy Literature”. The Name of the Rose is another great novel; an excellent mystery as much as it is a portrayal of the Middle Ages. Martian Chronicles is an awesome sci-fi book: pure, simple, colourful. A true product of the power of imagination. My favourite play, and one of my favourite pieces of Literature, is Waiting for Godot. I love reading plays. I love reading short stories too (I’m a huge fan of Poe and Asimov’s), Virginia Woolf’s The Mark on the Wall is one of my favourites.

5. Favourite trope?

Buff female characters. They don’t even have to be the protagonist tbh. Best paired with frail male sidekick.

6. Favourite type of scene to write?

Probably fight scenes. Hey, I know they are difficult and I’m not saying mine are perfect, but I have a lot of fun writing them :D

7. What kind of scenes do you hate writing?

Dialogue. I do not hate writing dialogue, actually, it’s cool for characterisation and interesting to do, but it’s hard! I struggle to make it look spontaneous while keeping it concise and part of the narrative.

8. Do you have a target audience in mind for your writing?

Not really because I believe target audiences are BS and anyone can read anything. I hate seeing fantasy books relegated to the children section. However, not having a target audience is bad marketing, so if I had to chose I’d say teens/young-adult/ adult. I’d really like for my stories to be read by teenagers because I want to communicate with them, but I don’t want my fantasy novels to be branded as “just YA”, I would like them to be taken seriously, as any other book.

9. What’s one thing you would change about your WIP?

In SaE I have the aforementioned issue with Sheen to fix.I need to understand what she really wants and what’s the true conflict of the story. If I manage to do that, everything will fall back into place.

10. To sequel or not to sequel?

Aarghh, I admit to have fallen in love with a character that I’d like to explore in a sequel, but! I don’t think I should do it. I believe in the strength of a well-concluded story. SaE, that I plan to be a trilogy, has the kind of ending that is just final; writing a sequel would hurt it. Who knows, maybe I’ll still jot down some notes and scenes, just for fun. Or maybe I’ll incorporate them into a D&D campaign! But for SaE the choice is not to sequel.

11. Do you prefer to read series or standalones?

I prefer to read series as standalones XD Let me explain: it’s safer to buy a series after all its books have been published because you have better chances to guess whether it’s actually good or not, hence I tend to buy trilogies in the chunky one-book format, which also gives a lot of satisfaction because its BIG. I don’t care if I read a book years after everyone has read it, if it’s a good book it won’t make a difference.

Wow, I wrote a lot! And perhaps overshared a bit, oops. Thank you so much for tagging me!

I’d like to tag @pixel-letters and anyone else who feels like doing it :)

#tagged!#oops a brain

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Love Quotes And Captions

Love is a puzzling inclination that everybody looks to characterize. We continually look for the importance and meaning of affection in sentiment books, romantic comedies and sentimental motion pictures, love melodies and love cites composed or spoken by the individuals we find generally motivating in our lives.

As though our own encounters are insufficient, we tune in to sweet stories shared by our loved ones, regardless of whether face to face or via web-based networking media, not just in light of the fact that we love these individuals and finding out about their encounters so a lot, yet in addition since we essentially love.

So it's reasonable that the vast majority of us really appreciate finding relatable Instagram and Facebook stories from individuals who's musings fortify and approve what we feel about our own adoration life.

All things considered, some of the time, significantly in the wake of finding out such a great amount about affection from our own encounters and those of others, you may feel somewhat adhered when requested to offer your own definition or musings about adoration accurately and in a compact way.

On the off chance that you battle to discover the perfect words to portray the present minute or feeling made by adoration, or on the off chance that you wish you realized how to acknowledge and praise your emotions in your own Instagram subtitles and presents devoted on that unique individual however don't exactly have a clue how or what to state, well, say no more ...

We've gathered a portion of our preferred statements about affection that, at any rate as we would like to think, splendidly portray this marvel.

Don't hesitate to share these in your Instagram story, as the ideal inscription to oblige that adorable couple's selfie you've been passing on to share, or in private messages or DMs to your life partner.

So right away, here are the 40 best love statements to use for good Instagram inscriptions or stories.

1. At the point when you sense that you've discovered the ideal individual to develop old with.

"Develop old with me, the best is yet to be." — Robert Browning

2. At the point when they feel like home.

"You put your arms around me and I'm home." — Christina Perri. "Arms"

3. At the point when they're all you truly need.

"All that you are is all that I'll ever require." — Ed Sheeran, "Tenerife Sea"

4. At the point when it appears to be unavoidable to become hopelessly enamored with them.

"It was consistently you."

5. At the point when you feel like together you can overcome the world.

"You and me together, we could do anything, child." — Dave Matthews Band, "You and Me"

6. At the point when they do decent things for you without being inquired.

"Genuine affection: When they do your least most loved task without being inquired."

7. At the point when it doesn't make a difference whom you love.

"It is important not who you love, it makes a difference just that you love." — John Lennon

8. At the point when love rises above quiet.

"A few hearts see each other even peacefully."

9. At the point when you are continually scanning for them.

"In an ocean of individuals, my eyes will consistently scan for you." — Not Only Not Only Journals

10. At the point when they offer you substantially more than you at any point expected to get.

"Also, there will be somebody that tags along one day and offers you a whole world when you just anticipated a solitary planet." — Noor Shirazie

11. At the point when they feel like daylight.

"Remain near individuals who feel like daylight." — Xan Oku

12. At the point when you are continually considering them.

"On the off chance that you ever stupidly overlook: I am never not considering you." — Virginia Woolf

13. At the point when it has a feeling that it's eternity.

"You are my today and the entirety of my tomorrows." — Leo Christopher

14. At the point when they feel like enchantment.

"I don't have confidence in enchantment," the little youngster said. The elderly person grinned. "You will when you see her." — Atticus

15. At the point when they truly need to get you.

"How astounding is it to discover somebody who needs to find out about all the things that go on in your mind." — Nina LaCour

16. At the point when your home feels like an individual.

"She realized she adored him when 'home' went from being a spot to being an individual." — E. Leventhal

17. At the point when you need to do everything with them.

"I wish I had done everything on earth with you." — The Great Gatsby

18. At the point when you need to break the hindrances of time.

"We should make time work for us." — The Maccabees, "Valuable Time"

19. At the point when you have an inclination that you have to sit tight for the perfect individual.

"Some time or another somebody is going to take a gander at you with a light in their eyes you've never observed, they'll see you like you're all that they've been searching for their whole lives. Hang tight for it."

20. At the point when you feel like there will never be going to be an adoration like this.

"There are a wide range of affection right now never a similar love twice." — F. Scott Fitzgerald

21. While being with your darling feels like an experience.

"She is wonderfully tumultuous; a lovely chaos. Cherishing her is an unbelievable experience." — Steve Maraboli

22. At the point when it resembles from the outset sight.

"I've preferred you since I met you."

23. At the point when you have an inclination that you loved constantly them.

"After this time?" "Consistently." — Dumbledore and Severus Snape, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"

24. At the point when you realize it should feel like an undertaking.

"Love is intended to be an undertaking." — B. Hinckley

25. At the point when he helps you to remember everything energizing.

"He was Christmas morning, blood red firecrackers and birthday wishes." — Raquel Franco

26. At the point when you understand they have been with all of you along.

"The moment I heard my first romantic tale, I began paying special mind to you, not realizing how dazzle that was. Sweethearts don't at long last meet some place. They're in one another from the beginning." — Rumi

27. At the point when they cause you to overlook everything else.

"We were as one. I overlook the rest." — Walt Whitman

28. At the point when you can't envision how dry your life was before them.

"I don't have a clue how I endure those prior days I held your hand."

29. At the point when they can overhaul a typical day.

"Any day went through with you is my preferred day. Thus, today is my new most loved day." — A.A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"

30. At the point when you have an inclination that you need to conflict with the chances.

"The entirety of the best romantic tales make them thing in like manner, you need to conflict with the chances to arrive."

31. At the point when you choose to pick them again and again.

"What's more, I'd pick you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred universes, in any form of the real world, I'd discover you and I'd pick you." — Kiersten White, "The Chaos of Stars"

32. At the point when you miss their quality so much that it harms.

"It harms when you have somebody in your heart, however you can't have them in your arms."

33. At the point when they bring you harmony.

"You're my preferred spot to go to when my brain scans for harmony."

34. At the point when they cause you to accept.

"You discovered pieces of me I didn't know existed and in you I found an adoration I never again accepted was genuine."

35. At the point when you are all in.

"This thing we're doing here, you, me. I'm in. I am all in." — Luke Danes, "Gilmore Girls"

36. At the point when you combine so totally that you feel like one soul.

"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our spirits are made of, his and mine are the equivalent." — Emily Brontë, "Wuthering Heights"

37. At the point when you have a feeling that you can't control it are still fine with that.

"Succumbing to you resembled tumbling down the stairs. I was in finished control from the start, at that point, abruptly, I was turning, tumbling, and has no clue why or how. At that point, before I even recognized what occurred, I lay at the base; stunned, wound up precisely where I was attempting to go." — K. Towne Jr.

38. At the point when they assist you with turning into your fantasy self.

"As a result of you, I can feel myself gradually turning into the me I have constantly longed for being." — Tyler Knott Gregson

39. At the point when it isn't simply physical fascination.

"I began to look all starry eyed at his spirit before I could even touch his skin. On the off chance that that isn't genuine romance, mention to me what is."

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"And God Created Woman" | Father Ted | Series 1 Episode 5 | Dead Parrot

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"And God Created Woman" | Father Ted | Series 1 Episode 5 | Dead Parrot

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Sim shouldn’t be on demise I was once considering of two completely specific folks sure sure i’ll of course because of father Dougal for clearing up that little misunderstanding k you’re hurting me all proper pay attention Dugan i will have to go straight after this you would have to guard the nuns reasonable adequate that what I do something you wish to have try not to kill them recall sister Geneva oh yeah just a little bit too shut for comfort all correct you in charge of this time huh oh God i’m going to be on in there yeah like these inappropriate huh proper let’s go see you later ok Hong Kong could offer you a record again for the midst of proper fight I jump onto the ball toppers performing at all times permanent i’ll best be a second with the pc lessons they’re supposed to satisfy some toxicity and you you’ve got made up your possess Michigan honey from O’Hare my cash that is what the video for became are available and have a drink father curly I could have the whole lot you wish to have in right here what are you doing here oh but we had been invited incise yeah identical as you Ted come to the housewarming in your possess Kenya no logs for very quick mass tonight father we had been all a little bit dissatisfied when two sisters we would not be coming again next year they say a pod of killer does a just right lengthy masks for the hour if he does not a good pleasant and Cisco for money you see oh i am sorry father I made a phony how do you get these open now father before you go can i’ve a fast word all correct – will you go on ahead i’ll be back in a whilst right so put anything else on no no what you’re carrying a satisfactory would you love a further drink father curly yes it’s great speakme to you today as should you two can’t talk to a priest – are you able to talk – we’re taught how to listen you recognize not that we had listening lessons or some thing not as if we did not recognize the way to hear before simply being there someone speaking to you which ones is quite convenient except you are useless working files there no no swatting for exams along with your listening father do you don’t forget me telling you about reaching a crossroads in my lifestyles yes I do but what do you consider I will have to do i need advice this crossroads is a time period you are busy at all how exciting I believe one road leads back to where I used to be now that’s a busy avenue full of folks and brilliant lights and traffic the other world is quiet country rolled the peace and serenity and fulfillment which one would you choose very well it’s um that is an convenient one yes I consider this is obvious proper lights glamour movie optimum good no I need to devour our cheese Sonic’s battery good I was going to claim water i know I’ve made the correct choice i do know you’ve gotten Holly i am with you the entire way i’ll emerge as a nun sick i can magnificent Jewish oh I was speakme sister Julia earlier you realize she’s 97 years of age did you ever suppose waters would be wish to be a ninety seven 12 months ancient non father no Maggie Island yes honey i do know I’ve only been here a day however i’m going to constantly bear in mind you in twenty years time once I’m watching in my prayer guide i’ll almost always still be fascinated about Father Ted curly frilly father Ted truly high-quality to satisfy you oh no Google not again sorry James oh well again to the day-to-day grind

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91 Enduring And Beautiful Quotes About Love

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91 Enduring And Beautiful Quotes About Love

Because “love is not about staring at each other, but staring off in the same direction.”

We asked the BuzzFeed Community to share their favorite quotes about love. Here are some of the most beautiful replies.

1. “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” –Maya Angelou Suggested by Megan Rose S. via Facebook

2. “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.” —Emma, Jane Austen Suggested by Rachael C. via Facebook

3. “Even after all this time? Always.” –J.K. Rowling Suggested by Brittney R. via Facebook

4. “The course of true love never did run smooth.” A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare Suggested by Sarah S. via Facebook

5. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” –Emily Bronte Submitted by Jessica H. via Facebook

6. “Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.” –Matt Groening Submitted by Courtney E. via Facebook

7. “Find what you love and let it kill you.” –Charles Bukowski Submitted by Pay A. via Facebook

8. “We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, so when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness; and then we call it love.” –Dr. Seuss Submitted by Kristen R. via Facebook

9. “cannot fix on the hour, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew I had begun.” —Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen Submitted by Mayra A. via Facebook

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10. “Maybe…you’ll fall in love with me all over again.” “Hell,” I said, “I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?” “Yes. I want to ruin you.” “Good,” I said. “That’s what I want too.” —Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway Suggested by Kaylee W. via Facebook

11. “And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. —The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran Suggested by Amanda C. via Facebook

12. “Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom.” –Shakespeare Suggested by Krysten M. via Facebook

13. “When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.” —The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran Suggested by Carla D. via Facebook

14. “Well you may not be beautiful, but it’s not for me to judge. I don’t know if you’re beautiful because I love you too much.” –“Asleep and Dreaming,” The Magnetic Fields Suggested by Amanda M. via Facebook

15. “I believe love is always eternal. Even if eternity is only five minutes.” —Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, Sandra Cisneros Suggested by Sarah O. via Facebook

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16. “Love is not about staring at each other, but staring off in the same direction” –Antoine de Saint ExupÃ©ry Suggested by Kristyn M. via Facebook

17. “For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.” –Carl Sagan Suggested by Carolyn P. via Facebook

18. “To love another person is to see the face of God.” –Victor Hugo Suggested by Haley F. via Facebook

19. “You remind me of a poem I can’t remember, and a song that may never have existed, and a place I’m not sure I’ve ever been to.” –Grandpa Simpson, The Simpsons Suggested by Georgina G. via Facebook

20. “What is love but a prelude to sorrow…with heartache ahead for your goal.” –“Blue Prelude,” Nina Simone Suggested by Justin Paul J. via Facebook

21. “Please know whether it’s the days you burn more brilliant than the sun or the nights you collapse into my lap your body broken into a thousand questions, you are the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. I will love you when you are a still day. I will love you when you are a hurricane.” —Mouthful of Forevers, Clementine von Radics Suggested by Andrea A. via Facebook

22. “No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” —The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald Suggested by Anne C. via Facebook

23. “Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.” –Pablo Neruda Suggested by Allison Y. via Facebook

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24. “Out of all those kinds of people, you got a face with a view.” –“This Must Be the Place,” Talking Heads Suggested by ZoÃ« L. via Facebook

25. “Were not there you, I’d be not too.” –Karen Marie Moning Suggested by Sarah L. via Facebook

26. “I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.” â€•Francois Sagon Suggested by Holly N. via Facebook

27. “All that I am, all that I ever was, is here in your perfect eyes. They’re all I can see.” –“Chasing Cars,” Snow Patrol Suggested by Gaby D. via Facebook

28. “You are every reason, every hope and every dream I’ve ever had.” —The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks Suggested by Janel P. via Facebook

29. “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” — Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne Suggested by Alberto R. via Facebook

30. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are.” –Oscar Wilde Suggested by Linda S. via Facebook

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31. “I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” —The Fault in Our Stars, John Green Suggested by Kamilah S. via Facebook

32. “I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair.” –Julie de L’Espinasse Suggested by Bernardo G. via Facebook

33. “Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.” –Robert Frost Suggested by Hannah B. via Facebook

34. “Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move Doubt truth to be a liar But never doubt I love.” — Hamlet, Shakespeare Suggested by Isabelle P. via Facebook

35. “The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.” — No Man Is an Island, Thomas Merton Suggested by annehuangmf711

36. “Of all the things my eyes have seen, the best by far is you.” –Cecilia and the Satellite Suggested by mmiller2

37. “I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.” â€• Blue-Eyed Devil, Lisa Kleypas Suggested by queenkatlifah

38. “I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight.” — Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald Suggested by leahbeth

39. “I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.” –Virginia Woolf Suggested by alim4bbccf63e

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40. “And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it’s to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don’t want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.” —The Symposium, Plato Suggested by thisprivatewar

41. “I could stay with you forever and never realize the time.” –“You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go,” Bob Dylan Suggested by jennieb3

42. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” —Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte Suggested by makiyahm

43. “But most of all I’m afraid of walking out that door and never feeling again for my whole life the way I feel when I’m with you.” — Baby, Dirty Dancing Suggested by aldeen08

44. “My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches!” — The Princess Bride Suggested by lisam4de6c969b

45. “You could search the furthest reaches of the universe and never find anything more beautiful.” –Yvaine, Stardust Suggested by joannaw4e62fc827

46. “You’re the better half of me, you’re the only half I need.” — “Wild Ones,” You Me At Six Suggested by annamaried2

47. “I didn’t fall in love with you. I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way. I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we’d choose anyway. And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.” — The Chaos of Stars, Kiersten White Suggested by Erin Ashley

48. “She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.” —Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel GarcÃa MÃ¡rquez Suggested by michaelalianner

49. “The truth, is you could slit my throat. And with my one last gasping breath, I’d apologize for bleeding on your shirt.” –Taking Back Sunday Suggested by katiec438235a9f

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50. “I wish that life could be just like a photograph. One moment captured as you laugh your perfect laugh.” –“Like a Daydream,” Ride Suggested by paulb41753758e

51. “Every breath that is in your lungs is a tiny little gift to me.” –“Dead Leave & The Dirty Ground,” The White Stripes Suggested by kdamico83

52. “So yes. It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing BECAUSE. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love a thing DESPITE. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.” —The Wise Man’s Fear, Patrick Rothfuss. Suggested by jojobean16

53. “For you, a thousand times over.” —The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini Suggested by vkummings

54. “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” –The Bible Suggested by mmeadows2891

55. “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” â€•100 Love Sonnets, Pablo Neruda Suggested by erockadashow

56. “I know sometimes it’s still hard to let me see you in all your cracked perfection, but please know: whether it’s the days you burn more brilliant than the sun or the nights you collapse into my lap your body broken into a thousand questions, you are the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. I will love you when you are a still day. I will love you when you are a hurricane.” –Clementine Von Radics Suggested by amandam4b4f6b306

57. “â€˜It doesn’t happen all at once,’ said the Skin Horse. â€˜You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.'” —The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams Suggested by michelleleew

58. “I don’t care if you don’t love me, I don’t care if you won’t change. I would live inside the shadow that is cast by you, if it meant that you would.” –“Miss America,” Something Corporate Suggested by ashn464ef3eda

59. “There’s a lot of things you need to get across this universe. Warp drive, wormhole refractors… You know the thing you need most of all? You need a hand to hold.” —Dr. Who, Season 6 Suggested by Erin Ashley

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60. “Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches…” —The Princess Bride Suggested by emilyb401913b36

61. “I love you only because it’s you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you, bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you is that I do not see you but love you blindly.” –Pablo Neruda Suggested by melibellel

62. “When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is.” —Captain Correlli’s Mandolin, Louis de BerniÃ¨res Suggested by mary-laurenw

63. “Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.” — Hamlet, Shakespeare Suggested by dhanyaj

64. “Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That’s what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.” –Lauren Oliver Suggested by katyross82294

65. “Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.” â€•Dorothy Parker Suggested by kieshak

66. “I am in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we are all doomed, and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only Earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.” —The Fault in Our Stars, John Green Suggested by sofiak4b91808e2

67. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” –Maya Angelou Suggested by brittanyh40b6d8214

68. “It means that love isn’t about being afraid that it will all be snatched away. Love’s about finding the one person who makes your heart complete, who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. It’s about looking in the eyes of your wife and knowing, all the way to your bones, that she’s simply the best person you’ve ever known.” —The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn Suggested by alexandriachem

69. “We are all fools in love.” —Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen Suggested by sharonc55

70. “If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us.” –Daisaku Ikeda Suggested by aislinnm4f03105da

71. “Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.” â€•Rainer Maria Rilke Suggested by bethg31

72. “The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” â€•Rumi Suggested by bethg31

73. “She was like art; and art wasn’t supposed to look nice. It was supposed to make you feel something.” —Eleanor and Park, Rainbow Rowell Suggested by katelyndaniellem

74. “I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone’s heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.” â€•What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver Suggested by emilygilliand

75. “Cause on the list of everything I need, there’s air, but first there’s you and me.” –“The Truth Is,” Go Radio Suggested by andie215

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76. “The half life of love is forever.” —This Is How You Lose Her, Junot DÃaz Suggested by leog4059ba1d6

77. “You are my sweetest downfall.” –“Samson,” Regina Spector Suggested by harrietg409844cf5

78. “My love for you is a puzzle, for which I have no answers. I can’t control it… and now I don’t care. I truly, deeply love you.” –Padme Amidala Suggested by catherineesparanzaj

79. “Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet.” –Tom Robbins Suggested by jaimemcclainfl

80. “Some people reflect light, some deflect it, you by some miracle, seem to collect it.” —House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski Suggested by alexey2

81. “Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.” —Selected Diaries, Virginia Woolf Suggested by ludovicat

82. “That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they’re not much to look at, or even if they’re sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.” —Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger Suggested by aeslehcgale

83. “We are like islands in the sea. Separate on the surface, but connected in the deep.” –William James Suggested by brittanyb46a381ca8

84. “Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service.” –Unknown Suggested by michelleu2

85. “But we loved with a love that was more than love.” –“Annabelle Lee,” Edgar Allen Poe Suggested by whitneighs

86. “He was my North, my South, my East, and West, My working week, and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song.” –“Funeral Blues,” W.H. Auden Suggested by anniea4c02ace89

87. “Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.” –Frida Kahlo Suggested by katiesheets97

88. “I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand and the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep, and there are no words for that.” –Unknown Suggested by laurenm47cbff421

89. “I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.” —The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Suggested by ludovicat

90. “The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.” –Pascal Suggested by erins45c7d8cda

91. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” –Queen Elizabeth Suggested by rachelm47be0a339

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Zadie Smith’s Dance Lessons for Writers

“Between propriety and joy choose joy.”

By Maria Popova

Zadie Smith (Photograph by Dominique Nabokov)

The connection between writing and dancing has been much on my mind recently: it’s a channel I want to keep open. It feels a little neglected — compared to, say, the relationship between music and prose — maybe because there is something counter-intuitive about it. But for me the two forms are close to each other: I feel dance has something to tell me about what I do.

Citing Martha Graham’s famous advice on creative work, intended for dancers but replete with wisdom for writers, Smith considers the common ground beneath the surface dissimilitudes between these two art forms:

What can an art of words take from the art that needs none? Yet I often think I’ve learned as much from watching dancers as I have from reading. Dance lessons for writers: lessons of position, attitude, rhythm and style, some of them obvious, some indirect.

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire

She proceeds to explore these dimensions through a set of contrasts between famous performers, beginning with Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire:

“Fred Astaire represents the aristocracy when he dances,” claimed Gene Kelly, in old age, “and I represent the proletariat.” The distinction is immediately satisfying, though it’s a little harder to say why. Tall, thin and elegant, versus muscular and athletic — is that it? There’s the obvious matter of top hat and tails versus T-shirt and slacks. But Fred sometimes wore T-shirts and slacks, and was not actually that tall, he only stood as if he were, and when moving always appeared elevated, to be skimming across whichever surface: the floor, the ceiling, an ice-rink, a bandstand. Gene’s center of gravity was far lower: he bends his knees, he hunkers down. Kelly is grounded, firmly planted, where Astaire is untethered, free-floating. Likewise, the aristocrat and the proletariat have different relations to the ground beneath their feet, the first moving fluidly across the surface of the world, the second specifically tethered to a certain spot: a city block, a village, a factory, a stretch of fields.

When I write I feel there’s usually a choice to be made between the grounded and the floating. The ground I am thinking of in this case is language as we meet it in its “commonsense” mode. The language of the television, of the supermarket, of the advert, the newspaper, the government, the daily “public” conversation. Some writers like to walk this ground, re-create it, break bits of it off and use it to their advantage, whereas others barely recognize its existence. Nabokov — a literal aristocrat as well as an aesthetic one — barely ever put a toe upon it. His language is “literary,” far from what we think of as our shared linguistic home. One argument in defense of such literary language might be the way it admits its own artificiality. Commonsense language meanwhile claims to be plain and natural, “conversational,” but is often as constructed as asphalt, dreamed up in ad agencies or in the heart of government — sometimes both at the same time. Simultaneously sentimental and coercive (“the People’s Princess,” “the Big Society,” “Make America Great Again”), commonsense language claims to take its lead from the way people naturally speak, but any writer who truly attends to the way people speak will soon find himself categorized as a distinctive stylist or satirist or experimentalist. Beckett was like this, and the American writer George Saunders is a good contemporary example.

Kelly quoted the commonplace when he danced, and he reminds us in turn of the grace we do sometimes possess ourselves… [Astaire] is “poetry in motion.” His movements are so removed from ours that he sets a limit on our own ambitions. Nobody hopes or expects to dance like Astaire, just as nobody really expects to write like Nabokov.

Next, she examines the writer’s sometimes parallel, sometimes perpendicular responsibilities to representation and joy by contrasting the brothers Harold and Fayard Nicholas:

Writing, like dancing, is one of the arts available to people who have nothing. “For ten and sixpence,” advises Virginia Woolf, “one can buy paper enough to write all the plays of Shakespeare.” The only absolutely necessary equipment in dance is your own body. Some of the greatest dancers have come from the lowliest backgrounds. With many black dancers this has come with the complication of “representing your race.” You are on a stage, in front of your people and other people. What face will you show them? Will you be your self? Your “best self”? A representation? A symbol? The Nicholas Brothers were not street kids — they were the children of college-educated musicians — but they were never formally trained in dance. They learned by watching their parents and their parents’ colleagues performing on the “Chitlin” circuit, as black vaudeville was then called. Later, when they entered the movies, their performances were usually filmed in such a way as to be non-essential to the story, so that when these films played in the south their spectacular sequences could be snipped out without doing any harm to the integrity of the plot. Genius contained, genius ring-fenced. But also genius undeniable. “My talent was the weapon,” argued Sammy Davis Jr., “the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man’s thinking.” Davis was another Chitlin hoofer, originally, and from straitened circumstances. His logic here is very familiar: it is something of an article of faith within the kind of families who have few other assets. A mother tells her children to be “twice as good,” she tells them to be “undeniable.” My mother used to say something like it to me. And when I watch the Nicholas Brothers I think of that stressful instruction: be twice as good. The Nicholas Brothers were many, many magnitudes better than anybody else. They were better than anyone has a right or need to be. Fred Astaire called their routine in Stormy Weather the greatest example of cinematic dance he ever saw. They are progressing down a giant staircase doing the splits as if the splits is the commonsense way to get somewhere. They are impeccably dressed. They are more than representing — they are excelling. But I always think I spot a little difference between Harold and Fayard, and it interests me, I take it as a kind of lesson. Fayard seems to me more concerned with this responsibility of representation when he dances: he looks the part, he is the part, his propriety unassailable. He is formal, contained, technically undeniable: a credit to the race. But Harold gives himself over to joy. His hair is his tell: as he dances it loosens itself from the slather of Brylcreem he always put on it, the irrepressible Afro curl springs out, he doesn’t even try to brush it back. Between propriety and joy choose joy.

Among the contrasting dancing styles through which Smith examine the various stylistic, aesthetic, rhetorical, and conceptual choices a writer must make — Prince vs. Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson vs. Madonna vs. Beyoncé, Rudolf Nureyev vs. Mikhail Baryshnikov — are those of David Byrne and David Bowie, singular in the choice they illustrate by way of negative space. Smith writes:

The art of not dancing — a vital lesson. Sometimes it is very important to be awkward, inelegant, jerking, to be neither poetic nor prosaic, to be positively bad. To express other possibilities for bodies, alternative values, to stop making sense. It’s interesting to me that both these artists did their “worst” dancing to their blackest cuts. “Take me to the river,” sings Byrne, in square trousers twenty times too large, looking down at his jerking hips as if they belong to someone else. This music is not mine, his trousers say, and his movements go further: Maybe this body isn’t mine, either. At the end of this seam of logic lies a liberating thought: maybe nobody truly owns anything.

People can be too precious about their “heritage,” about their “tradition” — writers especially. Preservation and protection have their place but they shouldn’t block either freedom or theft. All possible aesthetic expressions are available to all peoples — under the sign of love. Bowie and Byrne’s evident love for what was “not theirs” brings out new angles in familiar sounds. It hadn’t occurred to me before seeing these men dance that a person might choose, for example, to meet the curve of a drum beat with anything but the matching curving movement of their body, that is, with harmony and heat. But it turns out you can also resist: throw up a curious angle and suddenly spasm, like Bowie, or wonder if that’s truly your own arm, like Byrne.

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There are no “crash courses” to healing. Yet, our culture’s customary treatment for abuse is quick, drive-through therapy. Unfortunately, we haven’t come all that far in sexual assault recovery over the past few decades. Twenty years ago, I went through conventional therapy, and afterward, I was supposed to be fixed. Case closed.

Experiences like these were to be neatly filed away, where they would appropriately collect dust and be forgotten. Don’t get me wrong. Therapy did help me. Therapy is good. Therapy helped me work through the painful experiences, understand the mindset of my abuser, let go of self-blame, and see abuse as a serious crime. Therapy was a good starting treatment, but it wasn’t an ongoing, forever treatment.

Many sources recommend finding a trusted friend with whom you can speak for support, but those sources are a bit idealistic. Society isn’t all that inclined to discuss abuse. Some people would rather talk about the quality of tampons. In the words of Jack Nicholson, people “can’t handle the truth.” In my personal experience, an expectation of silence only bankrolled feelings of shame into feelings of betrayal. I became Eleanor Rigby, wearing a false face kept in a jar.

The world was the same, but I was different. I started spending more alone time at the local bookstore. I would drive there, get a coffee, pick up a classic work off of the discount table, and escape reality for hours. Classic literature was my medicine. Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Descartes, Aurelius, Hobbes, and Locke–among others–became my instructors. They explained human nature to me, and they taught me how to think for myself.

I paved my own path of truth through literary works. Then, thirsty for more, I ditched my pre-dentistry college major for English Literature. I had no career plan. I was simply in survival mode, and I found kinship in the pages of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf, and Kate Chopin. From Hardy and Hawthorne, I learned that experiences like mine transcended time and culture. I was not alone after all, and my experience was no tragedy. It was unfortunate, but it was universal. Women had universally survived such experiences since before Biblical times. I wasn’t alien, after all. I was among survivors, warriors.

Books gave me resilience and self-reliance. They illuminated truth–universal truths that connected people across cultures and time spans. I learned I could only find real-world truth by examining a situation from many angles. Like objects in a rear-view mirror, situations and people were not always as they first appeared. This altered perspective opened my mind. It gave me a listening ear, an observant eye, and a compassionate heart. Books transformed me. They shaped me into a warrior and gave me the courage to help others.

After college, and after teaching for a few years, I went on to get my Masters in Literacy. That was when I learned the term bibliotherapy. My professor called it “the right book for the right person at the right time.” My professor explained there was healing in books, but he didn’t have to convince me. I already knew. I was a living testimony.

Books may help you, too. Here’s a strategy. Try taking a paperback and making it own your healing diary. Write thoughts, jot quotes, sketch doodles in its margins. Dog ear your favorite pages, the passages with which your soul connects. Keep those special books near, and revisit them. Check out the links below. If you’re struggling with a lack of support, then know you’re not alone. There’s kinship in the pages.

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21 Titles To Get Started

1. So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba

2. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

3. Tess of the D’urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

4. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

5. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

6. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

7. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

8. Kindred by Octavia Butler

9. Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

10. The Awakening by Kate Chopin

11. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston

12. Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates

13. The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo by Stieg Larsson

14. Jane Doe January by Emily Winslow

15. Lucky by Alice Sebold

16. Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro

17. The Colour of Milk by Nell Leyshon

18. The Invisible Girls: A Memoir by Sarah Thebarge

19. She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb

20. Such a Pretty Girl by Laura Wiess

21. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

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